Buying from Big Ag: How Government Food Procurement Reinforces Monopoly Power (and What We Can Do About It!)
November 28, 2023 Introduction Every year, the U.S. government spends billions of dollars on food. In 2022, including everything from food for military bases to school lunch programs, the government spent more than $9 billion on food procurement. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Defense get the biggest slices of the…